Sumanto Al Qurtuby is a cultural anthropologist and a faculty member in the Department of Global and Social Studies at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Trained at Boston University, he has been awarded several visiting research and teaching positions from the University of Notre Dame and National University of Singapore, among others. Sumanto, director of Nusantara Institute on Culture and Religion, has published extensively on issues around Islam, Muslim politics and cultures, as well as ethnoreligious conflict, violence, and peacebuilding. His books include
Religious Violence and Conciliation in Indonesia (Routledge, 2016) and
Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education and Islam (I.B. Tauris & Bloomsbury, 2019). He is now working on two monographs:
Muslim–Christian Encounter in Indonesia: Sectarian Tension and Peaceful Coexistence and
Combating Terror: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
